News about the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
The WHSC Library invites you to our 100th Anniversary Celebration Event, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Patricia Brennan, director of the National Library of Medicine! Where: Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building auditorium When: Thursday, September 14, 3:30pm – 5:30pm, Reception to Follow This free, in-person event is cosponsored by Emory’s Center for AI Learning. Click Read More …
Now on display at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library are collection titles related to our 100th Anniversary. These books highlight the history of health sciences libraries, the profession of health librarianship, and the history and impact of medical education at Emory University. Also included are selected works by eminent Emory faculty; from scholarly books Read More …
Join the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library for a webinar sponsored in celebration of the library’s 100th year anniversary. Speaker: John Banja, PhD- Emory Center for Ethics Date/Time: Thursday, April 20, 1-2pm Register: https://tinyurl.com/bdh6uuad Having served on the Emory faculty for four decades and observed remarkable changes in health care economics and its delivery over Read More …
In recognition of March as National Women’s History Month and 2023 as the 100th anniversary year of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, we are honored to share brief highlights of the five women who have served as its library directors. Since the 1923 founding of the WHSC Library, originally dedicated as the A.W. Calhoun Read More …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library is proud to announce the opening of our latest exhibition, Moving Forward, Looking Back: A Retrospective on WHSC Library Exhibits. The exhibition highlights the efforts of Emory faculty and library staff, past and present, to tell the history of medicine, nursing, public health, and the health sciences from an Read More …
The Abner Wellborn Calhoun Medical Library was established in 1923 with a $10,000 gift from the Calhoun Family to support the Emory University School of Medicine. In 1924, M. Myrtle Tye was selected as the first full-time librarian and tasked with building and maintaining the library collections. Following Tye’s death in 1933, a $175 gift Read More …